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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ezekiel Machogu",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Education",
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        "legal_name": "Ezekiel Machogu Ombaki",
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    "content": "necessary administrative action that includes disciplinary action against those who were involved in this. On the third part of the Question, government policy is very clear that, indeed, nobody is supposed to operate private businesses within school premises. We established that there were a number of businesses being transacted within the school compound before November 2022. That is against government policy. Following the complaints and more so from the Member of Parliament, the necessary remedial action has been taken on this. All businesses being conducted in the school have now been closed down. Among businesses in the school was a container where we had a canteen in the school. We also have a swimming pool in the school constructed using the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG- CDF. It was done by the former Member of Parliament. We also established that, indeed, members of the public have been accessing the swimming pool. We are also taking action because what the school administration and the Board of Management allowed was not proper, particularly members of public accessing the pool during school days. Since then, we have said members of the public should not access the school during school days. We have also established the amounts collected from those businesses. Because the school’s Board of Management was being paid, we have also sent auditors and quality assurance officers to establish the specific amount that was collected from those businesses transacted in the school. That is so that we know how whatever monies collected were expended. If they were not expended properly, necessary disciplinary action will be taken against the culprits thereafter. Hon. Speaker, I admit that there was a transfer of this particular teacher by the name Mr. Onyango to a school known as Mahiga Primary School which is within Kasarani. The Teachers Service Commission (TSC), after receiving information that the transfer was being instigated by people who did not give proper information, decided to cancel the transfer and I am in touch with the TSC. We decided that once we establish and conclude the investigations that are ongoing, then we will take further action against the head teacher and anybody who was involved in the act."
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